The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers.
The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base for the Navyâs SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the worldâs largest naval port.
I would think they were US drones doing an exercise or something. Back in the day the US navy has a special SEAL team that would raid US bases randomly without much of a hint beforehand (basically they would tell them they were coming so they would know to switch to training blanks) but they wouldnât tell them when. It was basically to see how base security personal would react to some special forces guys dumping on top of them. Could have been the same type of exercise.
Reports of the drones reached President Biden and set off two weeks of White House meetings after the drones first appeared in December last year. Officials from agencies including the Defense Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pentagonâs UFO office joined outside experts to throw out possible explanations as well as ideas about how to respond.
Itâs almost like allowing a spy balloon to cross the entire continent, passing over sensitive military areas and not shooting it down until itâs over the Atlantic. Iâm sensing a pattern?
I donât think so. It states plainly in the article they are not allowed to shoot things down in populated areas. No way thatâs a brand new policy under Biden.
Much of the land across the US of the path that balloon was onâŚis scarcely populated at best; Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska. I donât know the capability of the âspy balloonâ but I would have thought the reward was worth the risk especially when deciding when and where to shoot it down?
To be fair the US dropped a nuke in a guyâs yard one time in the 60s. Thankfully it didnât have its pit so no atomic boom. But still really â â â â â â up the guyâs yard and his shed.
Yâall have no â â â â â â â clue what America has had for the last decade or more to the point that some of yâall argue with those who have used it.
It was the Cold War. They got away with a lot of â â â â ups for years with âteh Sovietsâ excuse. Quite a few B-52s crashed in that era. Not from bad maintenance but from the US government keeping them airborne for 24 hours at a time and the pilots burning themselves out on speed pills.
